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I’ve been reading, as I find time, “Gateways” by F. Paul Wilson, a Repairman Jack novel.
 
“Angel Time” by Anne Rice

To be honest, her style is almost too simple in this book. I liked her more complex novels back in the day. It’s good she’s away from the dark side, but she didn’t have to leave behind the style!
 
HarmonyServant said:
“Angel Time” by Anne Rice

To be honest, her style is almost too simple in this book. I liked her more complex novels back in the day. It’s good she’s away from the dark side, but she didn’t have to leave behind the style!
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I ordered this for myself for a Christmas present (sort of hoping the teenager might pick it up, too) but haven’t started it yet. I haven’t read her other books so I don’t have them to compare to.
 
I am reading “Nurture Shock”
Its a facinating read if you have kids.
Its kinda like “Freakanomics” for parents. Full of scientific studies and results that go against many common parenting ideas.
 
GraceSofia said:
Oh, I thoroughly enjoyed that book, and thought it was very well-written.
I liked it so much that I read the next one, World Without End,but was disappointed. WWE seemed very anti-Catholic; all of the clergy and religious are horrible characters. I don’t know what happened to change the author in the years between when he wrote the first book and the second book, but the second one is very depressing.

But enjoy The Pillars!
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I felt the same and abandoned the book not even halfway through.
 
“What’s So Great About Christianity”, by D’Souza.

I listened to the book on audible.com but it seemed to be something that was worth reading more carefully, so I bought the paperback.
 
Colmcille said:
djeter! I never knew of anybody who had read the Canticle…; I read it some thirty years ago and had no idea it was a Catholic SF classic, although I’ll never forget having read it. What makes it “Catholic”/ I’m just curious… Colmcille:)
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Well, it’s set in a Roman Catholic monastery for one. The second would be the Catholicism of its author. Third, it gets lumped in with Walker Percy, Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh as a “Catholic” work. I think you will see from my reading selections that it has some powerful Catholic points to make:

You Don’t Have A Soul,You Are A Soul
The visitor shrugged. “Like euthanasia? I’m sorry, Father, I feel that the laws of society are what makes something a crime or not a crime. I’m aware that you don’t agree. And there can be bad laws, ill-conceived, true. But in this case we have a good law. If I thought I had such a thing as a soul, and there was an angry God in Heaven, I might agree with you.”

Abbot Zerchi smiled thinly. “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”

The visitor laughed politely. “A semantic confusion.”

“True. But which of us is confused? Are you sure?”

More here:

payingattentiontothesky.com/2009/09/18/book-recommendation-a-canticle-for-leibowitz-by-walter-m-miller-jr/

I use it a lot when I’m writing:

payingattentiontothesky.com/2009/09/29/the-false-gods-of-expedient-mercy/

dj
 
GraceSofia said:
What do you think of it from a Catholic point of view?
I read it many years ago before I was any kind of Christian, so I don’t know what I would think of it now. G.K. Chesterton was said to have written The Everlasting Man as a sort of response to Wells’ book.
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If you are ever looking for a quote from the Everlasting Man or would like to give it a quick overview, I have reading selections here, with topic links:

payingattentiontothesky.com/fr-richard-neuhaus-on-gk-chesterton/reading-selections-from-the-everlasting-man/

I’ve given Orthodoxy the same treatment. There’s also a great essay on Chesterton by another favorite of mine: Fr. Richard John Neuhaus. It’s all under PAGES on the right as you bring up the blog.

payingattentiontothesky.com

dj
 
Doorbell said:
The Zombie Survival Guide
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I think my brother tried to buy that book for me for Christmas, but couldn’t find it (I’m a big zombie fan, lol). Is it any good?
Finally getting around to reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. For anyone that is a Jane Austen fan I highly recommend this book! You will be laughing out loud most of the time. I love that the guy really kept the style of writing the same. It’s just a really good book!
 
djeter said:
If you are ever looking for a quote from the Everlasting Man or would like to give it a quick overview, I have reading selections here, with topic links:

payingattentiontothesky.com/fr-richard-neuhaus-on-gk-chesterton/reading-selections-from-the-everlasting-man/

I’ve given Orthodoxy the same treatment. There’s also a great essay on Chesterton by another favorite of mine: Fr. Richard John Neuhaus. It’s all under PAGES on the right as you bring up the blog.

payingattentiontothesky.com

dj
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Thanks! I just had a quick look, but will go back and read.
 
GraceSofia said:
What do you think of it from a Catholic point of view?
I read it many years ago before I was any kind of Christian, so I don’t know what I would think of it now. G.K. Chesterton was said to have written The Everlasting Man as a sort of response to Wells’ book.
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So he did.

Belloc’s reply to Wells was A COMPANION TO MR. WELLS’S “OUTLINE OF HISTORY”.

Wells’ rejoinder to that was MR. BELLOC OBJECTS TO “THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY”.

To which, Belloc issued MR. BELLOC STILL OBJECTS TO MR. WELLS’S “HISTORY”.

Each book was shorter than its predecessor.

On the whole, I think Chesterton came out the best.

GKC
 
Crime and Punishment – Dostoevsky
This is so good and not hard to read.

The Bible
Also very good, going to take a while to finish.
 
Just finished He Leadeth Me by Fr. Walter J. Ciszek, S.J., with Fr. Daniel Flaherty, S.J.

Fr. Ciszek, who is being considered for sainthood, also wrote With God in Russia.

In 1928, Ciszek, a priest, volunteered to leave the US and work in Russia at the calling of Pope Pius XI. Trained in Poland, he was picked up by the Soviets and ended up serving 15 years in Siberian prison plus five years as a mechanic as a semi-free person. Finally, was exchanged in the 1960s. He’s considered one of the spiritual heroes of our time.
 
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